Re: [Qemu-devel] Preconfig state reachable without --preconfig given

[Igor Mammedov]

On Mon, 4 Jun 2018 11:46:06 +0200
Max Reitz <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 2018-06-02 12:46, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> > On 06/01/2018 03:28 PM, Max Reitz wrote:  
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> The @preconfig RunState documentation states:
> >>  
> >>> The state is reachable only if the --preconfig CLI option is used.  
> >>
> >> However, this is not true:
> >>
> >> $ echo | x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -monitor stdio
> >> QEMU 2.12.50 monitor - type 'help' for more information
> >> (qemu)
> >> HMP not available in preconfig state, use QMP instead  
> > 
> > Not sure if this is the same bug, but I've noticed libvirt having
> > troubles detecting capabilities of qemu and debugging lead to this patch:
> > 
> > http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-06/msg00367.html
> > 
> > (which by no means I claim is proper solution. It might be viewed as
> > workaround by expert qemu devels)  
> 
> Well, it'd fix both of my issues, so it has that going for it. :-)
Acked patch.

Markus also suggested to drop HMP monitor altogether at this first loop,
I'll look into it some more taking in account demonize() issue.

> 
> >> On IRC, Daniel proposed doing the runstate transition immediately after
> >> the command line has been read and no --preconfig option has been found.
> >>  Doing that indeed fixes the issue for me (but I don't know whether
> >> that's the best solution).  
> > 
> > Oh has he? I can't find it anywhere.  
> 
> That was in #qemu on OFTC:
> 
> [Friday, June 1 2018] [15:21:26 CEST] <danpb> if we've not passed
> --preconfig though, we should not be in PRECONFIG state in the first
> place IMHO
> [Friday, June 1 2018] [15:22:27 CEST] <danpb> eg  vl.c should set the
> state to RUN_STATE_PRELAUNCH  immediately after parsing CLI args if
> --preconfig wasn't given
That's not how it should be, PRECONFIG is there to replace PRELAUNCH
at early stages (which commit 8a36283e12 message states)
/me is to blame for miss-leading doc comment/

> Max
>